Research Questions

Cassie Wickliffe

Dos Santos

ENC 2135

July 9, 2018

Does music help college students achieve better grades?

1. I am interested in researching how listening to music while studying or doing homework helps college students to receive good grades.

2. I have always found that listening to calm music while writing an essay, studying, or doing homework, helps me to stay on track. I get my quality work done quickly which results in good grades.

3. Surprising Facts I've gathered about my topic come form the research article,

"Take a Break: Examining College Students' Media Multitasking Activities and Motivations During Study- or Work- Related Tasks":

Empirical evidence suggests that multitasking with media is rarely a good idea when it comes to studying, working, or doing other cognitive activities.

I have further questions about how specifically only listening to music, and not multitasking, affects studying.

4. Reasonable people do disagree about this topic. They often think listening to music while studying or doing school work is too distracting and has no correlation with improving grades. 

5. The topic is researchable in the time I have.

6. Subtopics I have thought of lead more into specific music genres and how they each indivisually affect college students' academics.

7. Do most students find that listening to music is a distraction or a study helper? A survey will help me with this.

8. Multi-tasking, media, genres, studying, academics, distractions, focus, attention-span